RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI | |
Anno XVIII , n° 2, Dicembre 2000 ( Contributi ) | pag. 138-168 |
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VERDI'S IL TROVATORE AS DIEGETIC MUSIC IN LUCHINO VISCONTI'S SENSO |
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VIVIENNE SUVINI-HAND | |
Royal Holloway, University of London |
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Visconti is well known for his love of classical music, especially opera. From 1954 to 1957 he worked at La Scala, Milan, directing Maria Callas in Spontini's La Vestale (1954), Bellini's La Sonnambula (1955), Verdi's La Traviata (1955), Donizetti's Anna Bolena (1957), and Gluck's Ifigenia in Tauride (1957). From 1958 to 1973 he directed productions of Verdi, Donizetti, Richard Strauss, Mozart, and Puccini in major opera houses across Italy, as well as in Moscow, London and Vienna1. The majority of the forty-five plays he directed were accompanied by music, ranging from Provençal troubadour songs by Bernart de Ventadorn, to Beethoven symphonies, and twelve-tone avant-gardism by Franco Mannino2; and he consistently used classical music as sound tracks to his films, and as a medium for emphasizing and enriching the ideas his films wished to convey. [...] |
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